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Pachamama Ventures closes debut fund to decarbonize industry, energy and freight
The San Francisco-based investment firm is tackling the hardest-to-abate sectors in the economy with a fund for tech founders rethinking how goods are …
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Pachamama Ventures closes debut fund to decarbonize industry, energy and freight
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Danone-backed Livelihoods lands €124 million for its fourth nature-based fund
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Spiro closes $270 million round with additional backing from NewTrails Capital
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Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners sells minority stake in battery energy storage projects
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Green lenders are all dressed up and ready to roll
The deals pencil. The pipeline is vetted. The projects are shovel-ready. Community lenders and green banks that had been set to deploy $20 …
‘Green bank’ groups plot next moves as EPA attempts to terminate grants
It’s been a head-spinning week for awardees of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The Environmental Protection Agency has escalated its attacks against nonprofit …
Water, long overlooked, is increasingly investable
For something that underpins virtually every aspect of our lives, water has for too long been “out of sight, out of mind” when …
How green banks are blending finance for community infrastructure and greenhouse gas reduction
In New Orleans, the city’s housing finance agency has become a “green bank” to underwrite community solar, water treatment projects, and resilience hubs. …
To be effective, climate solutions need a gender lens
ImpactAlpha, November 17 – That women are more adversely affected by climate change is well established (in impact and development circles at any …
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Regenerative farmland aligning with Microsoft’s carbon negative goals
The “Resilient Capital Stacks” series has highlighted how local leaders blend public, private and philanthropic dollars to build climate infrastructure rooted in specific …
What a structural engineer sees in your infrastructure portfolio
Every piece of infrastructure I have ever worked on carries an invisible assumption. Somewhere in the design calculations, buried in a drainage coefficient, …
Housing and energy costs are together fueling one affordability crisis
Families spend, on average, more than half their income on housing and transportation expenses. For many already stretched thin on housing costs, rising …
Mind the pioneer gap: Building platform infrastructure for climate finance
The impact investing field has just crossed $1.57 trillion in assets under management. We have grown 21% annually for half a decade. We …
The environmental movement needs to embrace and accelerate innovation
Over the past decade, I’ve sat across from hundreds of people who care deeply about the future of our planet— business leaders, investors, …
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